A man dressed in black and in glasses stand towards the centre of the frame. He points to a series of drawings hung on a string across the wall beside him. A group of spectators gathers around him.

Teacher Programmes

Details

Type: Talk, Tour, Workshop

Language: Multiple

Audience: Educators

Programme

Ongoing

Teacher Programmes

Who are our teachers? They are willing and committed learners. Museums should provide resources for those who are eager to learn and, at the same time, serve as a platform for everyone to exchange knowledge and perspectives. This exchange allows us to connect and inspire each other in our lifelong learning.

Our regular Teacher Programmes for primary and secondary schools include M+ Collections Tours and school-wide Professional Development Workshops. With emphasis on diverse learning experiences in visual culture, the programmes invite teachers to venture outside their campuses and into new surroundings. They can experiment with learning in a museum setting where minds and ideas collide. M+ will also be holding regular Teacher’s Day for teachers to learn about the latest exhibitions and teaching programmes in the museum prior to the student visits.

More details will be available later on this webpage. Please subscribe to the M+ School Programmes E-newsletter for latest updates.

Teacher Professional Development Workshops

Programme Overview and Booking Method

Workshop: Creative Gallery Interpretation Experience and Artist-led Monoprint Making

There is often more than one answer to a question in life. The museum is an open environment, where different perspectives and mindsets coincide, and everyone can freely engage in different ideas in their own ways. The museum is more than a place to collect and exhibit works of art. Our sparks of creativity are what enliven the museum.

This workshop follows the theme of multi-perspective thinking. It consists of the Creative Gallery Interpretation Experience and Artist-led Monoprint Making. Participants will join museum educators and local artists to think out of the box and reach beyond conventional boundaries. They will reflect on their perceptions and feelings and embrace the new experiences that lie ahead.

As a lead-in to the activities, M+ Educators will invite participants to take a simple arts quiz, which suggests an M+ Collections exhibit for the participant to visit. Next, an automatic writing session will guide participants to write down their instinctive thoughts after viewing an exhibit from the M+ Collections. The responses will be added to a range of previous interpretations, turning them into a self-guided gallery learning tools that will continue to inspire the others. Beside visiting the designated galleries, participants may also visit The Cabinet, a space consisting of forty movable panels. An interactive digital game will be the medium for participants to share their thoughts on the collections. After the activities, local illustrator and artist Kinchoi Lam will invite participants to his Monoprint Workshop, where they will make their own prints using simple tools. When the teachers bring their artwork back to their school campuses, they are reminded that learning and exploration extends beyond the traditional gallery experience. This programme prompts teachers to ponder questions to which there are no standard answers.

The participants’ willingness to learn helps enrich the museum’s collections and curatorial expertise. Their exchange with museum educators and artists brings forth deeper questions—what can we learn at the museum apart from what it intends to teach us? We believe that if we are willing to ask questions and respond without drawing on existing knowledge both inside and outside the museum, it will foster multi-perspective thinking in our learning community.

About the Artist

Kinchoi Lam is a Hong Kong artist and picture book maker. He obtained a masters degree in children’s book illustration at Anglia Ruskin University in England. His work brings everyone with him to travel around the world and explore different cultures and stories in life. With his first picture book, Little Big Tram, he won the First Prize in the Creative Writing in Chinese Award in 2016 and the Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Award in 2019. Lam’s recent picture book publications include Journey to Mars (2021), The Unexpected Journey of Little Star (2022) and Nomads: Life on the Move (2022). His other illustration works have won various local and oversea awards and have been included in exhibitions.

A group of teachers sit in a circle on the floor. They each hold up a small booklet. A glowing lamp in the shape of a book sits in the centre of the circle.

Participating teachers select a card based on their preferred colour to explore the relationships between their personalities and selected works from the M+ Collections. Photo: M+, Hong Kong

A group of teachers sit on the ground against a wall made of wooden panels.

Participating teachers express their thoughts and feelings about an artwork or design object from the M+ Collections with automatic writing, a creative way to track our thoughts with text. Photo: M+, Hong Kong

A man holds up a booklet against a wall filled with monochrome photographs.

Participating teachers draw connections between the works from the M+ Collections and their living experiences inside the galleries to deepen their understanding on the creative practices of artists and designers. Photo: M+, Hong Kong

A group of teachers visit a gallery. They are standing around a panel of artworks and a digital screen.

Participating teachers visit The Cabinet to participate in a digital interactive experience. By comparing images and text, they find inspirations, connections, and surprises from this creative, interpretative game. Photo: M+, Hong Kong

A group of teachers sit on the ground as they observe a screen playing a presentation.

After a visit in the galleries, M+ Educators and participating teachers find similarities between the works from the M+ Collections and their teaching and learning experiences. Photo: M+, Hong Kong

An artist stands in the centre-right of the frame. He is holding a colourful drawing in his right arm.

A local artist introduces participating teachers to creative ideas to expand their imagination on teaching. The printmaking activity during this school year is co-designed by Hong Kong artist Lam Kin Choi and M+ Educator. Photo: M+, Hong Kong

Three teachers stand against a table. They are using simple printmaking tools to create a message card.

Participating teachers use simple printmaking tools to create a message card for students. Photo: M+, Hong Kong

Teachers create message cards with simple printmaking tools. Photo: M+, Hong Kong

A group of teachers hold their message card in different colours in a room built with wooden panels.

M+ Educators review the learning outcomes of the programme with participating teachers through their creative outputs. Photo: M+, Hong Kong

A woman in a yellow top holds up a book at a moveable cart filled shelved with a few books.

Teachers read books related to teaching and learning at The Forum, Learning Hub. Photo: M+, Hong Kong

M+ Collections Tours

Programme Overview and Booking Method

The M+ Collections Tours for teachers are led by our museum curators or experienced educators. We encourage participants to embrace a multi-perspective appreciation of the myriad possibilities that lie within visual culture. The experience is based upon the actual exhibits in the galleries with a shared learning perspective, whereby the teachers will see beyond the textbooks as the source of knowledge and teaching. As they tour around the gallery space inside the museum, the teachers will acquire in-depth knowledge of six to seven exhibits on display, with content covering aspects of visual arts, moving images, design and architecture. This is the opportunity for teachers to seek the nexus between creative arts and teaching, while developing sensitivity and the critical appreciation for the creative process of the artists or designers. This is intended to broaden the horizons in student learning.

We welcome teachers to come for a pre-visit before their students come to M+. Schools may submit special requests when they make booking for the school visits. We will consider the feasibility of your requests and design guided tours that suit your specific needs.

This programme can be credited toward the Continuing Professional Development programme.

Date: Tuesdays to Fridays, except for public holidays
Time: 10:00, 11:15, 14:30 or 16:00
Duration: 90 min.
Language: Cantonese or English
Fee: HKD 1,800 (max. 15 participants per group). If necessary, an online meeting can be arranged with the teacher-in-charge for adjusting the tour rundown and content, HKD 2,800 would be charged per group for this special arrangement.

The museum can accommodate a maximum of seventy-five teachers each timeslot. The tour will be conducted in groups. Each group is limited to a maximum of 15 teachers. If there are more than 15 teachers participating during the same timeslot, M+ Educators will divide them into smaller groups. The programme fee includes General Admission ticket (original price HKD 120) for each participant to access the designated galleries during and after the programme.

If teachers would like to purchase 20 or more tickets for self-guided visits in the M+ galleries, please book the tickets through our Online Application Form.

➔ This programme for the 2023/24 School Year is now full. Teachers may click here for the booking details of 2024/25 School Year to plan the visit in advance. For enquiries on other time slots, please contact us at [email protected].

Photo: M+, Hong Kong

Teacher’s Day

Programme Overview

Riding on the enthusiastic response from previous years' teacher briefing sessions, our museum will hold Teacher's Day at the end of the 2023/24 School Year, providing a platform for teachers, museum curators, and educators to learn from each other and foster a comprehensive understanding of teaching and learning strategies.

Teacher's Day offers a variety of activities for primary and secondary school teachers, such as programmes and teaching plans introductory sessions, guided tours, programme demonstrations, and artist workshops specifically designed for teacher development. The guided tours will not only cover the visual arts and design collections of M+ but also include a preview of the new special exhibition I.M. Pei: Life as Architecture, which will open on 29 June 2024, allowing participants to have an exclusive preview of selected exhibits before the museum visits of students. Teachers can register for different sessions based on personal interests and explore all galleries with free admission.

Date: 5 July 2024 (Friday)
Time: 10:30 to 17:30
Duration: Teachers can plan and customize their museum visit based on the activity schedule according to their individual needs. Details will be announced on this webpage in early May.
Language: All activities will be conducted in Cantonese, with some sessions offering simultaneous English interpretation services.
Cost: Free of charge for teachers from local registered schools. Teachers with successful registration can visit all galleries without purchasing additional tickets during the museum's opening hours on the event date.

This programme is specifically designed for local primary and secondary school teachers and is recommended for curriculum leaders, life-wide learning leaders, and teacher professional development leaders from both primary and secondary schools. Our museum also encourages visual arts teachers to invite teachers from other subjects to attend together. Prior experience in artistic practices is not required.